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    TR in Africa [1909, 2]
    Theodore Roosevelt in Africa [1909, 2] | Roosevelt in Africa
    Scenes of African peoples and of TR's safari party, all probably filmed in British East Africa (Kenya) in 1909. View of TR planting a tree in front of trading company building, possibly located in Mombasa, long shot of busy amusement area in Kenyan seaport of Mombasa, including shot of ferris wheel filled with Swahilis; shots, taken from observation platform on train engine, of plains...
    • Contributor: Kearton, Cherry - Community Motion Picture Service, Inc - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1909
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    Imperial Japanese dance
    Title in Maguire & Gammon catalogue: Japanese dance
    "A charming representation of The Mikado dance by three beautiful Japanese ladies in full costume. Very effective when colored. 45 feet"--Edison films catalog.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Sarashe Sisters - Dickson, W. K.-L. (William Kennedy-Laurie) - Afi/Holt (H.L.) Collection (Library of Congress) - Heise, William
    • Date: 1894
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    Betsy Ross dance
    Title in Biograph photo catalog, v. 5: Betsey Ross dance | Title in Biograph production log: Betsy Ross dance (Little Anita)
    Opens on a bare stage with a painted backdrop of an interior theater wall and pillar. From screen right, a woman in a short, ruffled dress and sash, tights, and ballet slippers, with long, dark hair worn in curls twirls onstage and performs an enthusiastic dance. Her movements include some with an apparent ballet influence, such as pirouettes and walking on pointe. She also...
    • Contributor: Bitzer, G. W. - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Little Anita - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1903
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    Karina
    Alternate title in AFI catalog: film beginnings, 1893-1910: Karina, specialty dancer
    On a bare stage with a black background stands a woman with short, curly hair, wearing a dark dress with a sleeveless top, low-cut bodice, mid-calf length skirt, and layers of petticoats. Smiling at the camera, she seductively raises her skirt to reveal the multiple white petticoats, as well as her lacy, white bloomers to the knees, white tights, and a garter on her...
    • Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Karina - Bonine, R. (Robert K.)
    • Date: 1898
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    Cupid and Psyche
    Variant title from Edison motion pictures, 1890-1900: Cupid and Psyche dance
    "An original dance by the Leander Sisters, performed at the Sutro Baths, San Francisco, Cal. One is dressed as Cupid, with the accompanying wings, bow and arrow; the other represents Psyche. The dance is full of grace and action and the figures show life size and very clear. The costumes are white and show up in beautiful contrast to the dark background, which is...
    • Contributor: White, James H. (James Henry) - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Blechynden, Frederick - Leander Sisters - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Afi/Holt (H.L.) Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1897
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    Trance and dance in Bali A performance of the kris dance, a Balinese ceremonial dance which dramatizes the never-ending struggle between the witch and the dragon--the death-dealing and the life-protecting--as it is given in the village of Pagoetan in 1937-1939. Dancers go into violent trance seizures and turn their krisses (daggers) against their breasts without injury. Consciousness is restored with incense and holy water. Balinese music forms a background...
    • Contributor: Belo, Jane - McPhee, Colin - Bohmer, Josef - Foerstel (Lenora) Collection (Library of Congress) - Mead, Margaret - Committee for Research in Dementia Praecox - Bateson, Gregory
    • Date: 1951
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    [Dickson experimental sound film]
    Title on donor inventory: Dickson violin | Variant title: Dancing men in the Black Maria
    Experimental sound film made for Edison's kinetophone -- a combination of the kinetoscope and phonograph -- but apparently never distributed. This LC copy is silent. Features two men dancing to a violinist. Shows W. K. L. Dickson playing the violin before a large phonograph horn connected with an off-screen reader while two men dance together. Part of Dickson's sound-synchronization experiments.
    • Contributor: Edison Collection (Library of Congress) - D'almaine, Charles - Heise, William - Dunston (Gatewood) Collection (Library of Congress) - Dickson, W. K.-L. (William Kennedy-Laurie) - Thomas A. Edison, Inc
    • Date: 1895
  • Film, Video
    Tseviḳah : ha-raḳdan ha-Etyopi
    צביקה : הרקדן האתיופי / | Tzvika Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    VHS format. Title from videocassette housing. Sources used: label on videocassette housing; YouTube website, July 28, 2017. Received 2017-07-28 from AMED; gift of Karen Sandler ; Israel and Judaica Section Video Collection (Library of Congress) Not viewed. סיפורו של צביקה היזיקאס, רקדן ממוצא אתיופי, שלמד בתיכון של האקדמיה למוסיקה ומחול וללהקתו של אלווין איילי בניו-יורק, כנגד כל הסיכויים. הסרט עוקב אחרי תחנות בחייו של...
    • Contributor: Israel and Judaica Section Video Collection (Library of Congress) - Israel. Rashut Ha-Shidur - Hiziḳas, Tseviḳah - Berman, Vered - Pilevsḳi, Orah Mimun
    • Date: 2000
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    Chrysanthemums
    Original French title: Chrysanthèmes | Alternate title per MAVIS: Masson reel | Chrysanthèmes | Masson reel
    Rising from a stage are two vases which separate to reveal a female dancer behind each of the vases. They create magical circles of flowers from which other women emerge. The dancers construct an elegant floral display, in the middle of which a miniature dancer performs. Another circle of flowers is brought forward on the stage, toward the camera, and in the circle are...
    • Contributor: Pathé Frères (U.S.) - Pathé Frères (France) - Mathieu, Julienne - Afi/Baker (Glenn L.) Collection (Library of Congress) - Chomón, Segundo De
    • Date: 1907
  • Film, Video
    South Pacific Ethnographic Archives audiovisual collection, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Field footage and produced films made by Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, Jane Belo, Theodore Schwartz, Lenora Foerstel, and Lola Romanucci-Ross; chiefly anthropological and ethnological field work with the Papua New Guinea (formerly Admiralty Islands region) and Sepik River Valley cultures of Papua New Guinea; and the Balinese of Indonesia. Subjects include Bali, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Manus Island, culture change, and technological change....
    • Contributor: Schwartz, Theodore - Belo, Jane - Institute for Intercultural Studies - Romanucci-Ross, Lola - South Pacific Ethnographic Archives - Mead, Margaret - Foerstel, Lenora - Bateson, Gregory
    • Date: 1936
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    Margaret Mead audiovisual collection, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Films in the Mead Collection are general films of her personal and professional life, and contain films by other producers that came from her offices at the American Museum of Natural History and the Institute for Intercultural Studies. Subjects include Child development and acquisition of personality characteristics as a culturally derived phenomenon, cultural issues relating to post-World War II, cybernetics, ekistics (study of human...
    • Contributor: Belo, Jane - Mead, Margaret - Clah, Alfred - Lomax, Alan - Bateson, Gregory - Gilbert, Craig - Baker, Aloha
    • Date: 1936
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    Scenes of the Everglades. Businessman and adventurer Homer Augustus Brinkley produced this film in 1928 after living for several months among the Seminole Indians in the Everglades. He later used the film in a traveling show that featured a live, caged bear and himself dressed as a Seminole. Photographed by William B. Feeland, the film contains some of the earliest moving footage of the Seminole. Beginning with panoramic...
    • Contributor: Feeland, William B. - Brinkley, Homer Augustus
    • Date: 1928-01-01
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    Dancing Ireni: Reimaging & Reimagining Alan Lomax's Choreometrics Project The first part of a three-day symposium that explores Alan Lomax's contributions to dance research and theory. This event features pioneer choreometrics scholars Meriam Lobel and Forrestine Paulay interviewed by University of Maryland faculty member Miriam Phillips.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2015
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    Listening to Stone: The Art & Life of Isamu Noguchi Hayden Herrera discusses her book on the acclaimed Japanese-American artist and designer Isamu Noguchi, an important creative partner of Martha Graham. "Without Isamu Noguchi I could have done nothing," Graham said. "Always he has given me something that lived on stage as... another dancer." This and other events celebrating Noguchi were presented through the support of Sachiko Kuno and Ryuji Ueno.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
    • Date: 2016
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    Cave of the Heart: Noguchi's Set for the Graham Ballet Janet Eilber of the Martha Graham Dance Center of Contemporary Dance discusses Isamu Noguchi's set for the Martha Graham work "Cave of the Heart," set to music by Samuel Barber. The presentation is part of the "Martha Graham at the Library" Festival and presented in association with the Isamu Noguchi Museum.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
    • Date: 2016
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    Isamu Noguchi's Dance Sets Dakin Hart discussed Martha Graham and Isamu Noguchi's explorations of the archetypal spaces of myth, including the American west, the Minotaur's labyrinth and the "cave of the heart."
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
    • Date: 2016
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    Conversation with Pontus Lidberg Swedish choreographer Pontus Lidberg discusses his career and his Library of Congress/Martha Graham Dance Company co-commission, "Woodland," with Nicholas Brown. Set "Notturno for strings and harp" by Irving Fine, "Woodland" was commissioned for the 90th anniversary season of "Concerts from the library of Congress." Part of the "Martha Graham at the Library" Festival and presented in association with the Embassy of Sweden and Swedish...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
    • Date: 2016
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    Martha Graham Dance Company: Discussion with Pontus Lidberg & Janet Eilber Anne McLean leads a discussion with Swedish choreographer Pontus Lidberg and the Martha Graham Dance Company's artistic director Janet Eilber. Lidberg received a dance commission from the Library of Congress and Martha Graham Dance Company, which resulted in the work "Woodland," set to the Notturno for strings and harp by Irving Fine. Eilber discusses the long and storied history of the Martha Graham Dance...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
    • Date: 2016
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    Martha Graham Dance Company Performs World Premiere of Woodland The Martha Graham Dance Company performs the world premiere of Pontus Lidberg's "Woodland," a Library of Congress 90th anniversary season commission set to the music of Irving Fine's "Notturno" for strings and harp. Also featured on the program are performances of "Appalachian Spring," "Cave of the Heart," and "Dark Meadow" Suite. Part of the "Martha Graham at the Library" Festival.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
    • Date: 2016
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    Martha Graham Dance Company Performs Appalachian Spring & Dark Meadow Suite This performance by the Martha Graham Dance Company features performances of choreography by Martha Graham and Pontus Lidberg, with music by Aaron Copland, Irving Fine, Samuel Barber, and Carlos Chavez. In this performance of "Appalachian Spring" Charlotte Landreau performs the role of the Bridge and Abdiel Jacobsen performs the role of the Husbandman. Also on the program is "Dark Meadow" Suite. Part of the...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
    • Date: 2016
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    Martha Graham Dance Company Performs Cave of the Heart PeiJu Chien-Pott, a principal dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company, delivered a riveting performance as "The Sorceress, Medea," in "Cave of the Heart," a dance choreographed by Martha Graham and set to music by Samuel Barber. Also on the program were "Appalachian Spring" (original instrumentation), "Dark Meadow" Suite, and "Woodland." Part of the "Martha Graham at the Library" Festival.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
    • Date: 2016
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    Esma Redžepova & Folk Masters Play Romani (Gypsy) & Macedonian Music A performance by internationally acclaimed "Queen of Romani Songs", Esma Redžepova, and the Folk Masters. During this Homegrown concert, Sani Rifati led an informal participatory dance.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - American Folklife Center
    • Date: 2016
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    Malawi Music with Giddes Chalamanda The 86-year-old Malawian musician, Giddes Chalamanda, performed his music for the first time in America at the Library of Congress.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division
    • Date: 2016
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    Discovering Creative Connections: The Collaboration of Erick Hawkins & Lucia Dlugoszewski Libby Smigel and Kate Doyle discuss the collaborations of modern dance choreographer Erick Hawkins and experimental music composer Lucia Dlugoszewski. Now accessible in the artists' papers in the Library, correspondence, choreographic notation and music charts and scores shed light on the note-taking system Hawkins developed that show his creative process as well as create movement scores for his dances. The papers of Dlugoszewski include...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
    • Date: 2017